"Q: How did
you come to organise the Loft Concerts series and how did you choose the people
that you presented there?

A: Yoko invited me to do it. I
had already made contact with the people before when I was at Berkeley, except
for Jackson MacLow I met in New York. I made contact with Henry Flynt before I
came to New York, and I naturally already knew Terry Jennings and Terry Riley.
Joseph Byrd I knew from the University of California, and Simone Forti I knew
from Ann Halprin's class in Kentfield, California. That was the class that Terry
Riley and I taught during summer 1960, and where I first delivered Lecture 1960.
That's where I met [sculptor] Robert Morris too. The first time Yoko came to my
apartment at Bank Street I guess she noticed that I had all these scores that
I had collected and that I knew all these composers. Eventually I selected from
among those scores for An Anthology [a book of La Monte's work, which was eventually
published in 1963].

Q: What did the art world, the social
group that you were in, think when she later became involved with John Lennon?

A:
Well, I knew that Yoko was an extraordinarily enterprising person and one of the
first things she told me was that she wanted to be as famous as me! I was, at
that time, considered very famous for an avant garde musician. She really had
an idea about building her career and doing things and moving ahead in life. I
have no doubt but what her relationship with John Lennon was very sincere and
complete. At the same time, one can have no doubt that Yoko was very aware of
what she was doing and how she was moving. She was a strong person and had a lot
of feeling, and I think she really understood what she wanted from life and went
about finding her way toward that goal."